On its 20th anniversary, Hasitha Fernando looks at the story behind Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning crime drama The Departed…Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker that requires no introduction. Influenced by his New York upbringing and Italian-American family background the uber-talented director made a niche for himself crafting gritty, blood-soaked crime dramas as evidenced by Mean Streets, Taxi […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Departed (2006)
The Departed, 2006.Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, and Alec Baldwin.SYNOPSIS:Martin Scorsese’s 2006 film The Departed makes its 4K Ultra HD debut in both standard and SteelBook editions, with a new 4K transfer supervised by the director’s long-time editor, Thelma Schoonmaker. Warner […]
The Cop on the Edge
Tom Jolliffe on the well-worn but effective cop on the edge trope…Cinema can often be pretty simple. Good guys are often morally upstanding. Bad guys often irredeemably corrupt. Your good guy might be a cop, your bad guy a crook. The hero might have a foible or two, but is generally psychologically on an equilibrium. […]
10 Essential Jack Nicholson Films
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential films from one of Hollywood’s greatest icons, Jack Nicholson…The unpredictable spark. The unconventional delivery. The eyebrows. A permanent sense of being on the verge of exploding. It’s Jack Nicholson, an actor of unique, almost unmatched intensity. He’s got an ability to dial his emotions right up, and to occasionally […]
Amazon orders The Departed TV series
As Amazon continues to build its network of original programming, Variety is reporting it has just acquired a new series from Warner Bros. TV and Plan B based off Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, which in turn was a Western remake of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong thriller Internal Affairs.Warner Bros. TV and […]
Remake. Reboot. Rehash.
Rob Blues on remakes, reboots and rehashes… There were three films I saw in the 1980’s that blew me away and in doing so scorched into my mind the brilliance of original film. Ghostbusters, Back to the Future & The Goonies. If you are my age then these films will hold a special place in […]
The Magnificent Remake: How and Why Remade Movies Succeed and Fail
Tony Black on remakes, and how and why they success and fail…Harking back to the days of big stars headlining even bigger films, The Magnificent Seven trailer exploded online this week showcasing the always A-list Denzel Washington alongside, among others, Hollywood’s newest megastar Chris Pratt, in a remake of the legendary 1960’s Yul Brynner headlining […]
